A buffer overflow vulnerability has been disovered in the wv library, used for converting and previewing word documents. On exploition an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable application.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2+cvs.2002.06.05-1woody2.

The package in the unstable distribution (sid) is not affected.

We recommend that you upgrade your abiword package.

Upgrade Instructions---------------------

wget url will fetch the file for youdpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: